Even within the context that Pascal intended it is fallacious. If you worship
the God of Abraham and there is no god, you have given up freedom of thought,
you have given up responsibility for your own morals and ethics, you have denied
yourself some pleasures of the mind as well as pleasures of the flesh.

That's right: if you believe in the Christian God and are wrong, the
real God (who may be worshipped by an obscure group numbering a few
dozen people, or by aliens, or by nobody at all) may be angry and may
punish you. An analogous situation arises when creationists demand that
the Biblical version of events be taught alongside evolutionary theory
in schools: if we are to be fair, the creation myths of every religious
sect should be taught.

> [Incidently, can you see the logical flaw in Pascal's Wager as
described

> above?]
>
I always wondered why it should be the Christian account of God and
Heaven that was relevant.
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